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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance

Find connections between historic debates over religious liberty and contemporary global tensions over faith, identity, citizenship, and immigration. Using the history of antisemitism to start dialogue, we examine the power this ancient hatred has to the shape thought, judgement, and behavior around the globe.

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Facing History and Ourselves has created a suite of resources for our educator audience that focuses on the letter exchange between George Washington and the Hebrew congregation of Newport, RI. Lesson plans, videos, and much more will help teachers bring a study of the letter exchange and the issues surrounding it into their classrooms.

A NEIGHBOR
When a man saw his 68-year-old neighbor taping a paper menorah to her window, he begged her to take it down. “Don’t you know what’s going on?” he asked. “Yes,” the woman replied. “That’s exactly why I’m putting it up.”

On September 26, 1993, three white men entered the African Methodist Episcopal Wayman Chapel and stood against the back wall with arms folded. They had come to intimidate the predominantly African American congregation, not to pray. When members of other congregations heard about the incident, they began to attend services at the church.

TAMMIE SCHNITZER
After a cinderblock was hurled through Isaac Schnitzer’s bedroom window in December of 1993, a police officer advised the Schnitzers to take down their Chanukah decorations. Tammie Schnitzer wondered: "But how do you explain that to a child?"